Special Issue "Advanced Studies on Toxic Chemicals: Properties and Characteristics"

A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Miguel Ángel Esteso
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U.D. Química Física, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain
Interests: Electrochemical Thermodynamics; Electrolyte Solutions; Thermodynamic and Transport Properties
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Dear Colleagues,

Chemical industry has been and is still one of those most contributing to the development of the society. But alongside this positive development fact, an implicit risk must be placed: many chemical substances, both inorganic (heavy metals such as mercury, arsenic, cadmium and copper, among others, as well as compounds such as asbestos, among others) and organic (solvents such as chloroform, carbon tetrachloride or acetone; hydrocarbons, pesticides and psychoactive drugs, both natural and synthetic, among many others), have specific or general potential toxic hazards. The study of the toxic scope of these substances, which are present in our daily life in food, medicines, utensils, work, and others, provides us with very interesting information to prevent and recover from the dangerous organic unbalances that such substances can cause us.

This Special Issue of Toxics aims to deepen the study of toxic substances, their properties, and their mechanism of action. In addition, it also focuses on analyzing the effects of intoxications, including professionals, on the organisms of the living beings as a result of the accidental or provoked ingestion of any of these toxics.

Prof. Dr. Miguel A. Esteso
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • toxic chemicals
  • contaminants
  • poisonings
  • organic toxics
  • inorganic toxics
  • heavy metals
  • drugs
  • gases

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Identification of 2C-B in Hair by UHPLC-HRMS/MS. A Real Forensic Case
Toxics 2021, 9(7), 170; https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics9070170 - 15 Jul 2021
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The analysis of drugs of abuse in hair and other biological matrices of forensic interest requires great selectivity and sensitivity. This has been traditionally achieved through target analysis, using one or more analytical methods that include different preanalytical stages, and more complex procedures [...] Read more.
The analysis of drugs of abuse in hair and other biological matrices of forensic interest requires great selectivity and sensitivity. This has been traditionally achieved through target analysis, using one or more analytical methods that include different preanalytical stages, and more complex procedures followed by toxicological laboratories. There is no exception with 2C-series drugs, such as 2C-B, a new psychoactive substance (NPS), which use has emerged and significantly increased, year by year, in the last decades. Continuously new analytical methods are required to selectively detect and identify these new marketed substances at very low concentrations. In this case report, one former case of a polydrug consumer (charged of a crime against public health in Spain) was reanalyzed in hair matrix. In this reanalysis, 2C-B has been positively detected and identified using liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC-HRMS/MS). The most selective analytical UHPLC-HRMS/MS method alongside a universal and simpler pretreatment methodology has opened up more possibilities for the detection of substances of different chemical structure and optimization of different HRMS/MS detection approaches allowing the identification of 2-CB in the hair of a real forensic case. Full article
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Planned Papers

The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.

1. Cobalt-chromium dental alloys: concern about the toxic impact of ions released in the oral cavity analyzed by diffusion measurement

2. Therapy with the oncological drug 5-F/luorouracil/: /the use of different chemical carriers/ to minimize its impact on the environmental pharmaceutical contamination

3. Recognition of heavy metals in water by sodium sulfonateresorcin[4]arenes

4. Effect of pharmaceuticals into anaerobic bioreactor performance: combining cell damage, ecotoxicity and chemical information

5. Analysis of 2C-B in hair by LC-HR-MS/MS: different approaches and a real forensic case
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